Ukraine national football team
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| Nickname(s) |
The Main Team (Головна команда) Yellow-Blue (Жовто-Сині) |
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| Association |
Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) Федерація Футболу України |
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) |
| Head coach | Andriy Shevchenko |
| Captain | Oleksandr Kucher |
| Most caps | Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (144) |
| Top scorer | Andriy Shevchenko (48) |
| Home stadium | Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv |
| FIFA code | UKR |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 30  (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 11 (February 2007) |
| Lowest | 132 (September 1993) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 26 (18 January 2017) |
| Highest | 14 (November 2010) |
| Lowest | 69 (29 March 1995) |
| First international | |
 Ukraine 1–3 Hungary  (Uzhhorod, Ukraine; 29 April 1992) |
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| Biggest win | |
Ukraine 9–0 San Marino  (Lviv, Ukraine; 6 September 2013) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Croatia 4–0 Ukraine (Zagreb, Croatia; 25 March 1995)  Spain 4–0 Ukraine (Leipzig, Germany; 14 June 2006)  Czech Republic 4–0 Ukraine (Prague, Czech Republic; 6 September 2011) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2006) |
| Best result | Quarter-finals, 2006 |
| European Championship | |
| Appearances | 2 (first in 2012) |
| Best result | Group stage, 2012 and 2016 |
The Ukraine's National Football Team (Ukrainian: Збірна України з футболу) is the national football team of Ukraine and is controlled by the Football Federation of Ukraine. After Ukrainian Independence and the country's breakaway from the Soviet Union, they played their first match against Hungary on 29 April 1992. The team's biggest success on the world stage was reaching the quarter-finals in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which also marked the team's debut in the finals of a major championship. As the host nation, Ukraine automatically qualified for UEFA Euro 2012. Four years later, Ukraine qualified for Euro 2016 via the play-off route, the first time qualifying for a UEFA European Championship via the qualifying process, as it finished in third place in its qualifying group. This marked the first time in Ukraine's five play-off appearances that it managed to win such a tie, previously unsuccessful in the play-off ties for the Euro 2000, 2002 World Cup, 2010 World Cup and 2014 World Cup.
Ukraine's home ground is the Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev.
Officially the national team of Ukraine, the national team was formed in the early 1990s and shortly after was recognized internationally. It is not widely known, however, that Ukraine previously had a national team in 1925–1935. Just like the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic had its own national team.
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